"The City" Fails The PLRGs

In this week's ep of The City, Whitney ends the recap by saying that she wonders if "this city was the right place for [her] after all." Well. We'd like to take Whitney to Blue Smoke, feed her a cheeseburger, and let her know that she is obviously not living the real City girl life.

No Whit, not everyone moves to New York City and meets some grimey Australian wanna-be rockstar on their first visit (and if they do, they do NOT, under any circumstances, proceed to date him for the next three months.) Nor do they get to eat at every restaurant in the Meat Packing District, or stroll into (faux) work at DVF and do what seems like (and is like) absolutely nothing all day long. We want to invite her four blocks up from her MTV-paid-for-yet-poorly-decorated Grammercy apartment to our less lavish, but better designed digs, and slap her straight. Or, at least tell her how to punch Olivia, who, as a NYC "social," is the exact opposite of the Poor Little Rich Girl.

Let's calculate the estimated cost of living for fake NYC girls:

Erin works at One Management, which, at entry-level can't make more then $30k a year. Her 1br at Gramercy Starckapartment, on 23rd and 2nd, is approximately $4,000 a month. Hmm.

Whitney and Olivia, working in fashion PR, would probably make the same, if not less. Rent at the Elektra, where Whitney lives on 23rd and 3rd, is approx $4,895 a month, and god only knows what Olivia pays in Tribeca, but we assume its around $4,000/month.

Allie and Adam, as models working with One Management, make approx $3k-$4k a shoot. Adam co-owns Il Bastardo, so we'll give him credit for that. And we'd really like to go the $15 all you can drink brunches and tell him to stop messing with Allie.

That's just a start. Every week, we'll monitor how much these so-called new NYC girls are spending, which is way more than a PLRG could even dream of. As for the asshole model boyfriend, Jay's disgusting facial hair, and Whit's reoccurring role as a doormat, we're not so jealous. Can someone bring back Nevan???